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BOOKNEWS from ISSN 1056–5655, © the Poisoned Pen, Ltd BOOKNEWS from ISSN 1056–5655, © The Poisoned Pen, Ltd. 4014 N. Goldwater Blvd. Volume 31, Number 11 Scottsdale, AZ 85251 September Booknews 2019 480-947-2974 [email protected] tel (888)560-9919 http://poisonedpen.com Our Podcasts are now downloadable on Google Music and iTunes FILL YOUR FALL WITH WONDERFUL BOOKS AUTHORS ARE SIGNING… Some Events will be webcast on Facebook Live Check out our new YouTube Channel TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 3 7:00 PM TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 24 7:00 PM Stephen Coonts signs The Russia Account (Regnery $27.99) SJ Rozan signs Paper Son (Pegasus $25.95) Coonts will be joined by 3 former CIA agents turned authors Lydia Chin & Bill Smith Dave Austin signs Tehran’s Vengeance (iBook $12.99) James Sallis signs Sarah Jane (Soho $23.95) Thomas Pecora signs Guardian: Life in the Crosshairs of the THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 26 7:00 PM CIA’s War on Terror (Post Hill Press $27.99) T. 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To order their books see Signed Books below. Linwood Barclay signs Elevator Pitch (Morrow $26.99) SEPTEMBER DISCUSSION CLUBS THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 19 7:00 PM Please buy your copy from The Pen. Anyone welcome but remem- Ticketed Event $32 admits one with one book; $37 admits two ber you risk spoilers if you don’t read the selection in advance with one book Coffee & Crime: Saturday September 14 10:30 AM Craig Johnson signs Land of Wolves (Viking $28) Rice, Craig. Home Sweet Homicide ($15.95) Sheriff Walt Longmire SciFi Friday: September 20 7:00 PM MONDAY SEPTEMBER 23 7:00 PM Lee, Fonda. Jade City ($15.95) Paddy Hirsch signs Hudson’s Kill (Forge $25.99) Croak & Dagger: Saturday September 21 10:30 AM Justice Flanagan 1803 New York City Turton, Stuart. The 71/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle ($16.99) Hardboiled Crime: Wednesday September 25 7:00 PM Welch, James. The Death of Jim Loney ($15) 1 = British PW=Publishers Weekly LJ=Library Journal EVENT BOOKS “Thrilling action, madcap humor, and a larger-than-life cast Austin, Dave. Tehran’s Vengeance (iBook $12.99). In a brazen, energize this cleverly plotted take on a traditional mystery. Barr daylight attack on his motorcade, Jonathan Lewis, the U.S. am- surprises and entertains from start to finish.”—PW Starred bassador to Iraq is missing and every member of his diplomatic Review. True—but the beating heart of this book is the uncanny security detail is killed. Joe Matthews and his team paramili- way Barr dives deep inside Rose’s apparent dementia to lead her tary officers deploy to the region with a CIA response group to out of it. investigate the incident and locate Ambassador Lewis. With the Coggins, Mark. The Dead Beat Scroll (Down & Out Books help of a traitorous congressional staffer, elements deep inside $17.95 September 29). PI August Riordan returns to San Fran- Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are able to identify the cisco after a self-imposed exile of five years only to find the individuals responsible for launching a devastating cyber attack partner and friend Chris who took over the business, his old against their country’s nuclear program. The list includes eight office, his secretary, and even his apartment, has died—on a high-ranking members of government and industry in America, table at the Golden Fingers massage parlor. It is determined Chris Britain, Germany, and Israel. Armed with this knowledge, the was shot with a .22. Riordan suspects the death must be linked leadership in Tehran decides it is time to exact its vengeance on to a case, most likely the most recent, that of a missing person. A the West. Acting on orders from the Ayatollah himself, Quds young woman called Angelina had hired Chris to search for her Force Major Hamid Farzan and his right-hand man, Lieutenant half-sister. Admonished by his nemesis Kittredge at the SFPD to Yousef Mehrdad, set off to blaze a trail of destruction…. stay straight and keep him in the loop, Riordan picks up clues as Barclay, Linwood. Elevator Pitch (Morrow $26.99 Septem- best he can, follows a trail that hints at an unknown manuscript ber 18). It all begins on a Monday, when four people board an by Beat writer Jack Kerouac and a murderous family intent on elevator in a Manhattan office tower. Each presses a button for claiming it. Taking on Angelina as a client, Riordan finds bodies their floor, but the elevator proceeds, non-stop, to the top. Once piling up along with the certainty that avenging his partner and there, it stops for a few seconds, and then plummets. Right to the serving his client is…murder. bottom of the shaft. It appears to be a horrific, random tragedy. Coonts, Stephen. The Russia Account (Regnery $27.99 Septem- But then, on Tuesday, it happens again, in a different Manhattan ber 3). When CIA director Jake Grafton learns that a tiny bank in skyscraper. And when Wednesday brings yet another high-rise Estonia has been laundering money, possibly hundreds of billions catastrophe, one of the most vertical cities in the world – and the of dollars, he sends his stalwart aide, Tommy Carmellini to inves- nation’s capital of media, finance, and entertainment – is plunged tigate. Tommy gets on the trail of Russian multibillionaire Yegan into chaos. Clearly, this is anything but random. But what is it? Korjev, a Putin crony, whom Jake approves for rendition to a safe Domestic terrorism. For sure it’s terrorizing New York and bring- house in Utah for interrogation. The money-laundering operation ing commerce to a halt….. they uncover ensnares politicians, philanthropists, investors, and It so interesting that both Barclay and Megan Goldin criminals in a complex plan to destabilize Western society with have used elevators in their thrillers—hers is The Escape Room. “imaginary money.” Coonts is on sure ground when handling as- But then I recently read a fascinating piece in the WSJ about Otis sassination attempts, shoot-outs, plane attacks, and investigative Elevators and the smart technology it is developing and installing field work, and Tommy’s world-weary persona shines. Prepare and one big issue is… it means an elevator carrying a specific for a conservative slant from Coonts, a Vietnam vet and pilot. passenger or passengers can be hacked. Once again crime fiction Coonts will be joined by three former CIA Agents September 3. cuts along the edge of change. Easley, Warren. No Way to Die (Sourcebooks $26.95 and $15.95 Barr, Nevada. What Rose Forgot (St Martins $28.99 September September 29). Attorney Cal Claxton, now well-established 17, publication day). I was heading towards making this in his Oregon law practice after breaking off his career as a standalone novel of suspense a Thriller Book of the Month. It is high-powered LA prosecutor, just wants to go fishing with his one in a sense, but of necessity to make the story work the pace daughter, Claire, and he knows the best place—the coastal area is low-key punctuated by bursts of action. Which is attributable south of Coos Bay. But their vacation takes a dark turn with the to the way that the 68-year-old recently widowed Rose Dennis discovery of a body in the river. Here’s a brand new review from navigates her incarceration in Longwood in the Memory Care PW: “Cal and his daughter, Claire, who has a postdoctoral posi- Unit—and her escape. We meet Rose as she’s barely navigating tion at Harvard in environmental science, are fishing in Oregon’s some Charlotte, NC, woods, dehydrated, clad only in a gaping Millicoma River when they discover the body of fellow fisher- hospital gown.
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